The PUMA Service

PUMA (Providing Unified Model Access) is the service set up by NCAS-CMS to provide the UK research community with centralised access to the UM on ARCHER, MONSooN, Polaris, Mobilis, and HPC Wales. CMS runs the PUMA service on hardware located at the University of Reading. It currently hosts no less than 27 code repositories including UM, NEMO, CICE, and mirrors of the recently introduced Met-Office Science Repository Service (MOSRS), and associated Trac systems for approximately 880 users. Some of the repositories; for example JULES & KPP are accessible to the global community.

Applying for Access

There are several levels of access to the PUMA service depending on what you will be using it for as detailed below.

PUMA Login Account

You will need to register for a unix account on PUMA if you require:

Access to the UMUI & FCM for submission of UM jobs up to vn8.6 and NEMO/CICE to ARCHER, MONSooN, Polaris, Mobilis, etc

Submission of Rose suites (UM version 10.x) to ARCHER.

Please email the CMS Team to ask for the PUMA registration link (We have been experiencing frequent spam registrations, so have had to temporarily remove the link to the registration form from this page). Once your request has been authorized, you will be sent login details to access both the PUMA service and the CMS Helpdesk.

Access to the PUMA Rose Suite repository & MOSRS Trac Mirrors

If you will only be submitting suites to MONSooN using Rose (i.e UM Version 10.0 and onwards), you DO NOT need a PUMA account. We would expect most users to put their suites into the roses-u repository on MOSRS, however, if you require access to the PUMA Rose suite (roses-puma) repository, then please email CMS Team with your preferred username.